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    Slavery reparations not about transfer of cash, says Lammy

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     UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said the concept of reparations for former colonial nations affected by slavery “is not about the transfer of cash”.

    In his first comments since 56 Commonwealth leaders signed a statement saying the time had come for a conversation about reparations, Lammy told the BBC that was not “the debate people are wanting to have”.

    The UK government previously ruled out paying reparations for slavery and Downing Street said its position included “other forms of non-financial reparatory justice too”.

    Lammy said the UK would in­stead look to develop relations with African nations through sharing skills and science.

    During his first visit to Africa as foreign secretary, Lammy said reparations were not about money, “particularly at a time of a cost of living crisis”.

    Reparations are measures to make amends for past actions deemed wrong or unfair, and can range from the financial to sym­bolic.

    Caribbean nations have made a 10-point plan for reparatory justice in which they call for a full formal apology, education programmes, healthcare and direct monetary payments.

    Speaking in Lagos, a Nigeri­an port city once central to the transatlantic slave trade, the foreign secretary said the period was “hor­rific and horrendous” and had left “scars”.

    “I am the descendant of en­slaved people, so I recognise that.”

    Lammy said it was right that an apology had been made “and we commemorated the abolition of the slave trade” when Labour was last in power.

    The UK has never formally apol­ogised for its role in the slave trade, though in 2007 then-Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair said: “Well actually I have said it: We are sorry. And I say it again now.”

    The British government and the monarchy played a key role in the centuries-long slave trade from 1500, alongside other European nations.

    Britain also had a key role in ending the trade, through Parlia­ment’s passage of a law to abolish slavery in 1833.

    Lammy’s remarks followed the discussion of reparations at a sum­mit of Commonwealth leaders in Samoa in October.

    Amid growing calls from Com­monwealth heads of government to pay reparations for the country’s role in the slave trade, Downing Street had insisted the issue would not be on the table.

    But Sir Keir Starmer later signed a document calling for talks on “reparatory justice” alongside other Commonwealth leaders – though he said there had been no discus­sions about money at the meeting.

    Lammy said he believed devel­oping nations would benefit as part of that through things such as the transfer of technical skills and science expertise from the UK.

    —BBC



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